Against Their Will

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Against Their Will is written by Tammie Jenkins and published by Ethics International Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1837110085 (ISBN 10) and 9781837110087 (ISBN 13).

Black women novelists use their female characters to create stories that challenge stereotypical depictions regarding womanhood, trauma, and legacies in the larger society. Such women novelists rooted in literary tradition traceable to the nineteenth in which they endeavored to insert their voices into these conversations while deconstructing these depictions. Modernized in the 1970s, this literary tradition has enabled Black women novelists to expand their novelic stories that include semiautobiographical accounts blended with fiction. Novelists such as Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Alice Walker, Octavia Butler, Ntozake Shange, Gloria Naylor, and Edwidge Danticat use their texts to present readers with alternative portrayals of Black female characters. Using singular monolithic texts by each author, this book explores how Morrison, Jones, Walker, Butler, Shange, Naylor, and Danticat present readers with female characters that use their lived experiences, social realities, and storytelling to navigate their womanhood, heal their trauma, and create their legacies. Key audiences for the book include undergraduate and graduate students and instructors in Women and Gender Studies courses, and African American literature.